[Pythonmac-SIG] py2app run errors

[William Kyngesburye]

On Aug 10, 2006, at 5:26 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:

> argv[0] and the name of the script aren't necessarily the same thing.
> __file__ is the file of the script (all modules have a __file__
> attribute).
>
Like I said, just getting my feet wet.

>>>> os.execlp('open', 'open', '-a', 'Terminal.app', shellrun)
>>>
>>> Probably should specify /usr/bin/open instead of just open.
>>>
>> Same error (changed command to os.execl).
>
> What you really should do at this point is print out your environment
> variables to make sure they're the right thing. If the environment
> variables aren't the problem, then you probably forgot to include the
> shell script in your app.
>
> When I want to open something in Terminal I generate a temporary
> script on the fly, rather than having some static script with
> parameters wedged in with environment variables. There's even an
> example of this technique in the py2app source:
>
> http://svn.pythonmac.org/py2app/py2app/trunk/examples/EggInstaller/ 
> EggInstaller.py
>
Well, some progress.  I switched back to the spawn method - I didn't  
realize that the args behaves exactly like in exec, where the command  
and name (argv[0]) are repeated.  I was doing spawnlp('open', '-a',  
'Terminal.app', shellrun).  So, now I have spawn finally opening the  
shell file in a new Terminal window.

Now the environment vars aren't making it into the Terminal window.   
I guess that makes sense - the environment set by spawn/exec is for  
the command it's running, 'open', not the file that open is telling  
Terminal to open.  I can't use that egginstaller method of writing a  
script, this application will likely be running without admin  
privileges, so wouldn't be able to write to the app package.

Any ideas on getting environment vars into the new Terminal window?   
I can't use args for the shell script - it already uses args for  
something completely different for when it's run from a command  
line.  Although, that already doesn't apply to when it's run as a Mac  
app like this.  hmm...

Maybe this is too much work to use Python as an open-source Mac app  
wrapper for a shell script (starts as a shell script, at least).  In  
the future, though, the app will have a Python GUI that I may want to  
wrap like this.  That'll be easier.

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